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GONE Fishing beginner guide: setup, perks and your first day
How to start a GONE Fishing 1.0 run: map unlocks, difficulty, perks, skipping the intro, picking up your rod and reading the Journal, checked in-game on Build 1.0.1.
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GONE Fishing 1.0: what changed, saves and the November 20 deadline
What the October 20 1.0 release added, whether to keep an Early Access save, the November 20 migration cutoff, save backups, the same-day hotfix and the launch price.
Progression
Progression
All 8 trinkets and Clinket the Trader (1.0)
Every GONE Fishing 1.0 trinket and what it does, the strongest combo, how co-op sharing works and what Clinket's prices and odds still don't tell you.
Progression
All totems and what they do: Leviathan, Golden Catch, Fish Frenzy and more
What each GONE Fishing totem does according to GONE Studios' patch notes: Leviathan's Totem, Golden Catch, Fish Frenzy, Slowing Metabolism, Bountiful Bait's 1.0 rework, Gilded Flow and Timeless Light, plus where to upgrade them.
Endgame
Spoiler guide
Final boss, the MOBY and the Rhizo (spoilers)
How GONE Fishing's 1.0 ending starts, what beating the Lake Entity unlocks, and how the MOBY leads to the Rhizo, the Lake's new mythic fish.
Maps
Maps
All 5 maps and how to unlock them
The Lake, Swamp, Jungle, Canyons and Arctic in GONE Fishing 1.0: which open at Day 7 and Day 14, each map's boat, threats and rare fish.
Survival
Survival
Creatures and how to survive them
Every creature in GONE Fishing's 1.0.1 Journal with its survival rule, plus the 1.0 Yeti, the troll, bats, the musket and TNT.
Money
Money
Make more gold: selling, cooking, smoking, pearls, gambling and traps
How to turn GONE Fishing catches into gold in 1.0: the trader's basket, cooking, smoking and rot, clams and pearls, gambling, traps, TNT fishing and what makes fish bigger.
Rare catches
Rare catches
Legendary and mythic fish: where they are and how to hook them
Every map's legendary and mythic fish in GONE Fishing 1.0, the bait score you need, how to stack your odds, and the hats and achievements they unlock.
Co-op
Co-op
Co-op: costs, sharing, joining friends and custom radio songs
Playing GONE Fishing 1.0 with friends: lobby size, how prices scale, what's shared, fixing lobbies you can't join, and adding your own MP3s to the radio.
Achievements
Spoiler guide
All 53 achievements, unlock rates and fish hats
Every GONE Fishing Steam achievement with its unlock rate and how to get it, the 24 hidden ones behind a spoiler, and how 1.0 fish hats and the launch-day co-op hotfix work.
Fishing
Fishing
Best bait and bait score: tiers, hearts, chopped bait and traps
How bait score decides which fish bite in GONE Fishing, the bonuses that raise it, the 175 legendary minimum, heart bait (tier 6), chopped bait from the butcher table, bait traps and the Glizzy.
Settings
Settings
Controls, settings and performance: keys, DirectX 11 or 12, FOV and controller
GONE Fishing 1.0 default keys checked on Build 1.0.1, the DirectX 11 and 12 launch options, FOV up to 130, controller support, comfort settings, PC requirements and the lobby version-mismatch fix.